We all have our opinions about our music machines, but the _story_ isn't
machines, it's the locations.  That's why I write books.  My forthcoming
book, "Let the Other Guy Play It!" is about coin-op mechanical music in
bars, saloons, speakeasies, restaurants, taverns and whatever exists
today.  Whether it is music box, multiphone, nickelodeon, amplified
jukebox or the upcoming downloading music machines, and whatever the
music of the day is, the beat goes on.

Some of us have fingers in a segment of this musical history, some have
fists and armfuls in all of it, but taste is individual and we have no
right to be taste makers for others.  If people know what was available,
and what it sounded like, they can make their own judgments.  It's the
locations -- where boys met girls for a century -- that make the public
musical history of our times, and those before and those yet to come.

Taste is where you choose to hook on to this marvelous path of music and
the messages it provides.  Hurrah for all of it!

Off my chest.  Let's see how _that_ plays.  And, are there editorial
comments?

Dick Bueschel

 [ Comments? For now let's "Let the Other Guys Play It!"  :-) -- Robbie